The upcoming new fan production Star Trek: Continues has a new vignette to show off. This time the theme a "Birthday" for Mr. Scott (played by James Doohan’s son Chris) with some cool new toys being beamed on board to the USS Enterprise. Watch it below.

The vignette features a new phaser design, which was done by Scott Nakada, who will be offering it on his site http://www.xscapesprops.com/.

The team are now turning their attention to their premiere episode, "Pilgrim Of Eternity" which was written by Jack Trevino and Steven Fratt. Show star and producer Vic Mignonga tells TrekMovie it is a sequel to an original series episode. The plan is to begin shooting at the Farragut Films Studio in Georgia in mid January and hopefully release it later in 2013.

More Vignettes

And if you missed them. here are the previous two vignettes from Star Trek Continues.

I love this scene. It made me smile. Great Fred Steiner score. New phaser does look streamlined the way James Bond’s Walther PPK is a sleek and elegant weapon. And I say this often whether it’s big budget Bad Robot Trek or fan productions, “More McCoy.” Good to see Star Trek lives.

Chris Doohan was very good in the latest clip. Even complete with the not so Scottish accent his father had.

Vic Whathisface is much, much closer to Kirk than that Cawley chap and generally the acting seems a lot better than New Voyages/Phase 2.

I have avoided fan films mostly because, as New Voyages showed, you have have nice sets and fancy acting a plenty, but if the acting, editing and sound mixing are awful, as they are with Cawley’s efforts, than it’s very difficult to watch. This appears to be an approvement all round so I may actually give this a shot.

I agree that the actor for Kirk has the look and the moves, but the voice needs to be lower when he speaks. It’s a joy to see Doohan as Scotty, I wish he could have been in the movie. The actor playing McCoy is a total bafflement to me.

Chris as Scotty is just spectacular. I have to say that the entire scene really captured every feeling of the original episodes. Without reading the above comments first, I do have to add that Vic’s voice is just a tad too high that it threw me off for most of the scene.

Sigh. Chris is perfect. Can someone edit it to just be the parts with Chris, and dub over the other voices???

Chuck: really need to think “southern accent” and “slower” to get any sense of McCoy and D. Kelley. I hate to say it, but I think Phase II’s Kelley playing McCoy does a much much better job. He doesn’t have a Southern accent, but he gets the articulation, speed of delivery, and a bit of wry charm down well. Chuck as someone noted plays McCoy more like the EMH.

Vic: well for an ‘experienced voice actor’, I’m surprised at the high tenor. A little vocal practice can allow one to modulate one’s voice to a lower register. At least take some steam treatments with a vaporizer in between takesor get a lecture bottle of the gas sulfur hexafluoride and take just a brief sip!

Cool to see this new cast. The acting is so much better an engaging. The actor playing Kirk is very good…just a bit feminine for Kirk. Kirk was always a man’s man and understood his role as a leader. It’s plain to see Vic is a decent actor, hopefully he can capture the Kirk character more. Looking forward to more episodes. Party on!

I’m having mixed feelings about this, so far. I thought the first vignette was a very credible extension of TOS’ famously less-than-stellar finale, but the latest were just too cheeky and aren’t-we-too-cute-for-words for my taste. (Love the new phaser design, though, which just puts that horror on display in the 2009 movie to shame.) This is also a criticism I’d make of the Phase 2 vignettes and even some parts of their episodes as well, and it’s just deadly in a fan production, so please don’t take it personally. Let’s get back to exploration and the drama of the human adventure and leave the strained humor (as opposed to the organic kind) to Bad Robot. Thanks!

I am all excited to see the new series beginning. We can never have enough of TOS Trek…Chris Doohan, really made me smile, as for the other actors, time will tell. It’s big shoes they have to fill, and we have to give them a chance to channel those iconic characters, and make it their own….Good luck everyone…

Best of the fan film series I’ve seen so far: really captures the feel of a 60s episode. Chris Doohan makes me think he actually is his Dad sometimes! Physically, Vic’s getting the role right although the higher register of the voice takes a bit of getting used to and, while Chuck Huber looks nothing like Deforest Kelley, he has the character pretty much dead on. The best thing with the vignettes produced by this team is they’re short and sweet. Hopefully the ‘less is more’ approach will extend to the first complete episode.

To the fellow playing Kirk: lower your voice by an octave, and please, less effeminate. Kirk is masculine–almost too macho for his own good. Please, channel more Rock Hudson, and much less Richard Simmons.

Loved this, as with the other vignettes so far. Really looking forward to some episodes. Growing up with TOS in the 70’s, I can tell you that the look, feel and sound are right on the mark! I agree with the small criticisms, but as with Phase 2 I think things will improve as the actors settle into their roles. Great job everyone!! I just wish we could get weekly episodes or vignettes. Maybe little snippets like “deleted scenes” from the original episodes. Some charater examinations after critical events from the TOS era, showing how these people came to be such good friends that they would sacrifice everything for one another by the movie era.

Anybody who nitpicks these guys too hard need to get a life. The guy playing Kirk has been pelted pretty hard about his voice being to high. I even read “feminine”. I am a huge TOS fan and a huge Shatner fan. I get Shatner. His voice isn’t perfect Shatner, but that is the only thing you could call bad. He nails “the Shat”. He gets Shatner and manages to impersonate Shatner in a very realistic manner. Hard to do. His cadence, inflection, attitude are all perfect. I mean, he’s got it. He brings Kirk to life without being a characature. When Shatner walked into a room back in the day, he had swagger, like he KNEW he was the biggest deal and coolest guy there. Vic brings it. If he keeps making them, I’ll follow.

Chris – goes without saying, absolutely brilliant.

The rest of the cast is close enough. Need a more perfect Spock, as I can recall. The problem with actors portraying Vulcans, even professional actors is, they try to play it with no emotion. Its stale. It feels phony. Nimoy, Lenard & even Russ sells it repressing emotion. Always appearing as though they are deep thinkers. And there is personality within that. They find that, and its on.

Great job guys. Doubt anybody will read this. But thank you for not just carrying on Star Trek, but carrying on the Daddy of all Trek. My childhood heroes. I just want more. I want full length episodes. I want a season. I want a series.

Anyhow, be very proud of yourselves. I am proud and just a little bit jealous. :)